Mike Jr wrote:> On Feb 16, 6:55 am, "Larry Hammick" <larryhamm...@telus.net> wrote:>> "Baron" <nos...@invalid.com> wrote in message>>>> news:hld4ti$883$1@news.albasani.net...>>>>> Wall Street Journal Feb 16, 2010>>>>> The Continuing Climate Meltdown>>>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870363040457505378146577...>>>> IPCC and Jones foretold flood, famine, pestilence -- it's a scandal>> of Biblical proportions.>>>> LH>> Change is all about pain.>> I read a story once where a man was on a burning oil platform in the> North Atlantic during a winter storm. A rescue boat was bobbing below> on huge swells. The man was 100 feet ( about 30.5 meters) up. He> jumped and somehow was rescued. When asked why he jumped he said that> the pain from the heat of the fire was too much to take.>> It is only when thresholds of pain are exceeded that people,> organizations, and societies change.>> So if you are an advocate and you want change than you have to paint> the dire consequences of not changing. Otherwise, forget it.>> Note that highly successful individuals and organizations tend to have> a low threshold of pain. If a stock isn't performing they dump it for> one that is.>> The corollary is also true. People and organizations with a high> threshold of pain tend to be very unsuccessful.>> People need to become much more aware of the con artists. Be> skeptical, apply the scientific method, independently verify claims.

It amuses me that the people who want "change" are so afraid of change--God forbid that the seal level rise two inches.